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Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by nblintao »

mapcars wrote: post #2

Are there any interesting/uniq features present in it that are not in the alternatives? My understanding is that its just a client for the powerful llm

Doesn't look like just a thin wrapper to me. The interesting part seems to be the surrounding harness/workflow layer rather than only the model call itself.

I was trying to keep track of the better post-leak code-analysis links on exactly this question, so I collected them here: https://github.com/nblintao/awesome-claude-code-postleak-ins...

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by alasano »

sbarre wrote: post #298
derwiki wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think pi has stolen the top honors, but people consider the Claude code harness very good (at least, better than Cursor)

Pi is the best choice for experts and power users, which is not most people. Claude Code is still the dominant (I didn't say best) agentic harness by a wide margin I think.

Pi really is amazing. It's as much or as little as you need it to be.

Not having to deal with Boris Cherny's UX choices for CC is the cherry on top.

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by barbazoo »

TIPSIO wrote: post #249
treexs wrote: post #7

The big loss for Anthropic here is how it reveals their product roadmap via feature flags. A big one is their unreleased "assistant mode" with code name kairos. Just point your agent at this codebase and ask it to find things and you'll find a whole treasure trove of info. Edit: some other interesting unreleased/hidden features - The Buddy System: Tamagotchi-style companion creature system with ASCII art sprites - Un…

If this true. My old personal agent Claude Code setup I open sourced last month will finally be obsolete (1 month lol): https://clappie.ai - Telegram Integration => CC Dispatch - Crons => CC Tasks - Animated ASCII Dog => CC Buddy

Poor mum

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by snapcaster »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #303
nialse wrote: post #290

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Paranoia. And also ironic considering their base LLM is a distillation of the web and books etc etc.

That isn't irony, it's hypocrisy.

No it isn't. It's a competition, making moves that benefit you and attempting to deprive your opponent of the same move is just called competing

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by satvikpendem »

xyzal wrote: post #346
0x3f wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll never win this battle, so why waste feelings and energy on it? That's where the internet is headed. There's no magical human verification technology coming to save us.

Magical human verification technology is called "your own private forum" in conjunction with "invite your friends"

Until your friend writes a bot.

Funny story, when I was younger I trained a basic text predictor deep learning model on all my conversations in a group chat I was in, it was surprisingly good at sounding like me and sometimes I'd use it to generate some text to submit to the chat.

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by Levitz »

moron4hire wrote: post #159
spoiler wrote: post #141

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Random aside: I've seen a 2015 game be accused of AI slop on Steam because it used a similar concept... And mind you, there's probably thousands of games that do this. First it was punctuation and grammar, then linguistic coherence, and now it's tiny bits of whimsy that are falling victim to AI accusations. Good fucking grief

To me, this is a sign of just how much regular people do not want AI. This is worse than crypto and metaverse before it. Crypto, people could ignore and the dumb ape pictures helped you figure out who to avoid. Metaverse, some folks even still enjoyed VR and AR without the digital real estate bullshit. And neither got shoved down your throat in everyday, mundane things like writing a paper in Word or trying to deal w…

And yet, no game has problems selling due to these reactions. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of people can't even tell if AI has been used here or there unless told.

I reckon it's just drama paraded by gaming "journalists" and not much else. You will find people expressing concern on Reddit or Bluesky, but ultimately it doesn't matter.

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by arcfour »

petcat wrote: post #302
nialse wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paranoia. And also ironic considering their base LLM is a distillation of the web and books etc etc.

They stole everything and now they want to close the gates behind them. "I got the loot, Steve!" I feel like the distillation stuff will end up in court if they try to sue an American company about it. We'll see what a judge says.

You're perfectly free to scrape the web yourself and train your own model. You're not free to let Anthropic do that work for you, because they don't want you to, because it cost them a lot of time and money and secret sauce presumably filtering it for quality and other stuff.

Stole? Courts have ruled it's transformative, and it very obviously is.

AI doomerism is exhausting, and I don't even use AI that much, it's just annoying to see people who want to find any reason they can to moan.

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

gunsle wrote: post #286
bonoboTP wrote: post #187

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It's how people resisted CGI back in the day. What people dislike is low quality. There is a loud subset who are really against it on principle like we also have people who insist on analog music but regular people are much more practical but they don't post about this all day on the internet.

I think literally everyone could agree CGI has been detrimental to the quality of films.

Anecdata-- from me. I think cgi can be a net positive.

Re: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Post by arrsingh »

I don't understand why claude code (and all CLI apps) isn't written in Rust. I started building CLI agents in Go and then moved to Typescript and finally settled on Rust and it was amazing!

I even made it into an open source runtime - https://agent-air.ai.

Maybe I'm just a backend engineer so Rust appeals to me. What am I missing?

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